Turkey Has Detained Over 300 for Opposing Syria Invasion

Turkey’s Erdogan government brooks little dissent in the best of times, and also really doesn’t like Kurds very much. Unsurprisingly, those criticizing their new war against Syria’s Kurds are facing a severe and ugly backlash.

President Erdogan angrily attacked those who oppose the war as “real filth,” saying it was an “honorless stance” to oppose the invasion. He also accused the nation’s medical union of teeason for a statement criticizing the invasion, calling them a “gang of slaves.”

The detainees are likely to face open-ended imprisonment, added to untold tens of thousands of dissidents already swept up in various other purges by the Erdogan government. Unsurprisingly, ethnic Kurds are the most heavily targeted in these arrests, and opposition politicians and journalists in particular most singled out.

6 thoughts on “Turkey Has Detained Over 300 for Opposing Syria Invasion”

What no comments about everyone’s newest hero Erdogan… He’s arresting Anti-war Turkish citizens who oppose his invasion of Syria and the war he’s bringing and nobody’s concerned. Proves my point this isn’t about Anti-war this is the anti-America forum. Where everyone gets a pass except the U.S.

Are we not reading the same forums go look what’s being said, people are actually hoping he kills American troops during the state of the union on some of those forums today. Than again you’re one of those I believe what I see and only what I’m told types.